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The Putnam County Charter School System has suspended in-person learning and is transitioning to digital learning for the remainder of the week due to concerns over increasing numbers of positive COVID-19 cases in the school district, increasing s
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Milledgeville, GA (December 11, 2020) – On Friday, December 11, 2020, at approximately 11:00 a.m., Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Eatonton Police Chief Kent Lawrence, age 61, for two counts of Simple Battery and one count of Batte
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No one really wanted to do it but the Eatonton City Council has voted to cancel the city Christmas Parade this year. It happened at the December 1 regular meeting held at The Hut.
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Putnam County has recently joined the U.S. Department of Energy’s SolSmart program to make it simpler for businesses and residential homes to go solar. This program helps the county to encourage solar energy growth by reducing the number of barriers that make it difficult to establish solar power systems.
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Farmers and Merchants Bank will be saying goodbye to one of their employees at the end of January. Medina Crowe, Vice President and Loan Officer for the bank, has decided to retire after 40 years of working for the historic bank.
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The Putnam County Board of Commissioners made some big decisions on Friday, Dec. 4 during their first meeting of the month. There were two special reports, one from Putnam County High School’s JROTC and ESG/EPSWA. Then with the absence of Commissioner Wooten, Commissioners Irvin, Brown and Chairman Webster voted on changes to the zoning chapter of the code of ordinances.
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As COVID-19 continued to spike around the country, Putnam County had a brief respite from the accelerating virus during the week of Thanksgiving. The week before, there were 870 confirmed cases in Putnam and 21 days later, on Dec. 7, there have been 74 new cases in the county.
Read moreNational Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame coach and Eatonton native, Dr. Glenn Wilkes, died at age 91 on Saturday, Nov. 21, a week shy of his 92 birthday. Wilkes is survived by his wife, Jan, and his six children: Glenn Jr., Scott, Tom, Rob, Tarra and Angel.
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